Adobe Illustrator Advanced

Brushes let you style the appearance of paths. Learn how to create every type of Illustrator’s brushes, manage libraries and downloadable brushes.

• Create calligraphic, scatter, art, pattern, and bristle brush.
• Create and apply pixel brushes.
• Apply and edit brush strokes.

Edit beyond the simple limitations of an object bounding box and discover the possibilities of distortions, warps and meshes to sculpt your artwork.

• Use the Free Transform tool to place logos and artwork into a unique perspective.
• Apply a Gradient Mesh to morph and deform objects.
• Envelope Distort Mesh/ Top Object/ Warp.
• Modify shape dynamics such as corner widget radius and types.
• Use opacity masks to hide complex artwork and integrate seamlessly with photos.

Unshackle yourself from the methodical pen tool and learn how to build vector artwork more efficiently.

• Drawing modes.
• Use the Curvature tool to create beautifully smooth paths.
• Smoothing and simplifying paths with Auto-Simplify and local editing with tools.
• Build complex illustrations with the Shape Builder tool.

Source colours from the world around you with digital apps to capture colour themes, mix new swatches, colour groups and re-colour document artwork to achieve more realistic real-world shading.

• Live paint groups/ painting strokes and fills.
• Live paint bucket and live paint selection tools.
• Use the Blob brush tool to paint solid shapes.
• Appearance panel/ stacking order/ multiple fills and strokes.
• Apply and edit live effects.
• Use Graphic Styles to globally control the appearance of your artwork.
• Gradient Mesh.
• Use the blend tool to morph shapes and paths into one another.
• Use the Colour guide panel to build harmonious colour themes that can tie in with branded content or your illustrations primary palette.
• Recolouring complex artwork quickly and efficiently to other colour schemes.
• Paint and alter the hues of symbolism sets.

3D effects enable you to convincingly create the appearance of 3D objects from 2D artwork. Illustrator provides features to control object, lighting, and shading features and the ability to apply vector artwork onto 3D shapes.

• Create 3D effects from 2D shapes.
• Add lighting and texture to 3d effects.
• Add artwork to a 3D surface effect such as logos to create a product mock-up.

Create scalable vector artwork for the web that can adapt to the confines of handheld devices or desktop web experiences.

• PNG v SVG
• Export responsive SVGs.
• Explore free online SVG libraries
• Preview SVGs on a web page

Explore some of the ways in which you can extend the creative output of artwork from Illustrator with scripts.

• Learn about scripts and their use within Illustrator.
• Install our recommended free scripts.
• Use free scripts to extend illustrators capabilities and save time.

Sculpt your type and free yourself from the confines of the baseline to achieve beautiful results with your editable text.

• Use the Touch Type tool to move, scale type characters like objects and edit white space whilst keeping all aspects of type editing intact.
• Add type around a path or circle.
• Place text inside a shape.
• Convert text into paths.Warp and distort editable text.

Create rich info graphics with Illustrator artwork. Import and edit excel data within your Illustrator chart tools.

• Import and format excel data into a graph design.
• Swap between Illustrators built-in graph types and settings.
• Select and colour graph elements and chart design that can be plotted as data.
• Create visually captivating custom infographics such as Choropleth Maps, donut charts and Nightingale Rose Charts with standard illustrator features and tools.

Explore new possibilities in Illustrator Creative Cloud desktop and mobile apps and get up to speed with the latest creative, time-saving techniques.

• Create, manage and share CC libraries.
• Use CC library items across Illustrator Photoshop and InDesign.
• Download and edit free stock project templates.